Try these prescriptions for spooky reds March 19 at 9:00 am March Madness is great if you’re a college basketball fan. If you’re a fisherman who likes to target redfish, the madness of March is trying to figure out how to get fish that have been hammered on by anglers and dolphin for three or four months to even look at a bait or lure.
Redfish schooling around Georgetown January 20 at 9:22 am The shallow waters around Georgetown are clear and cool, and sight fishing for schooling winter redfish on light tackle is how fishing guide Capt. Steve Roff likes to fish for them this time of year.
Roff says the reds are bunching in schools, and "it is like deer hunting, stalking and paying attention to an outline or a tail movement."
14-year-old kills 140-class Newbury County buck January 19 at 7:58 am Rabbit hunters count on their beagles to run bunnies in a big circle, with their quarry eventually returning to the area from which it was originally flushed.
When Pelion’s Liz Richburg killed a beautiful 10-point buck on the last day of the season (Jan. 1), it was sort of the same deal. The beagles were replaced by relatives driving the deer, and the 140-class buck she killed returned to the spot it was first observed – 10 weeks later.
But in a period of a little more than two weeks, Elsey’s season went from dull to dynamite with a pair of great bucks taken on separate mobility-impaired hunts.
Quick draw rewards hunter with 12-pointer December 05, 2011 at 4:06 pm Chris Chason of Fort Long got busted by a huge buck the afternoon of Nov. 17 while hunting on his club’s land in Fairfield County.
Luckily, his reaction time was just swift enough to get off a kill shot at his biggest buck ever shortly after being detected at only 40 yards away.
The decision paid off for the Laurens County hunter when his biggest buck yet – a trophy main-frame 10-pointer – showed himself about 15 minutes before dark.
Chesterfield County produces another huge deer November 14, 2011 at 3:43 am While his son was on a hunting trip out west to kill a big buck, Charles Rayfield of Chesterfield bagged a trophy here at home. The 215-pound buck the elder Rayfield downed on Nov. 5 had a 12-point rack with a 20-inch inside spread and 24-inch main beams.
Rayfield has two 130-class bucks already in South Carolina’s record book, but this deer will best them both. His latest green scored at 157 and change Boone & Crockett – one in a series of big trophies taken from Chesterfield County in the past three weeks.
Laurens County produces Pope & Young buck November 11, 2011 at 11:15 am SouthCarolinaSportsman.com user Ben Lecroy joined the trophy deer parade currently under way across the state when he bagged a Pope & Young buck last Saturday (Nov. 5).
For boaters only November 11, 2011 at 10:13 am Two WMAs involved in draw-only hunts — Santee Delta West and Bear Island West — require hunters to provide their own transportation. This means they’ll have to have some type of boat to get either to the hunting area or out to the blind.
Lee County gives up monster 11-point November 10, 2011 at 11:53 am It was a day of firsts for Sumter’s Kyle Griffin that led to a dream buck in Lee County on Oct. 25.
Griffin was the first person to sit in a new lock-on stand a friend had recently mounted in a pine tree, the first to ever lay eyes on the big buck and he made good the first time the deer offered a clear shot.
That all led to a tremendous buck, a 175-pound 11-pointer with a 20 3/4-inch inside spread, split tines and an 11-inch drop tine. The buck is estimated to score between 150 and 160 inches Boone & Crockett.
Leslie Mills, a 17-year-old high-school senior, shot a 225-pound monster Monday afternoon (Nov. 7) – a beast with a main-frame 6x6 rack featuring double brow tines on both sides and one other sticker point that push the tape to more than 160 inches when measured.
If they miss it... November 08, 2011 at 11:29 am A topwater bait isn’t the easiest thing for a trout to hit, so it’s not unusual to have a speck hit a big topwater plug and knock it completely up in the air — but not get hooked.
